Online dating

personal introductory system whereby individuals can find and contact each other over the Internet to arrange a date

practice of suddenly breaking off a relationship or friendship with someone

a confidence trick involving feigning romantic intentions towards a victim, gaining their affection, and then using that goodwill to commit fraud

Online scam starting with using social-engineering on the victim and building over an extended amount of time likened to fattening an animal before slaughter

online dating service presented through a mobile phone application

Toothing was originally a hoax claim that Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones or PDAs were being used to arrange random sexual encounters, perpetrated as a prank on the media who reported it. The hoax was created by Ste Curran, then Editor at Large at the gaming magazine Edge, and ex-journalist Simon Byron. They based it on the two concepts, namely dogging and bluejacking, that were popular at the time. The creators started a forum in March 2004 where they wrote fake news articles about toothing with other members and then sent them off to well-known Internet-based news services. The point of the